EBAY: A rare £2 coin has been listed on the popular buying and selling platform for the “Buy it now” price of £400. Do you have one of these in your spare change? Check now to see if you could make a mint.

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So how rare is this coin considered? The Royal Mint website provides a clue.

It provides the mintage figure as 8,190,000, which reveals there are this many in circulation in the UK.

The description reads: “In 2012 we marked the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens, one of Britain’s finest writers, with a unique £2 coin that incorporates the titles of Dickens’ famous works on its highly inventive reverse.”